The greatest blessing in my life!

I am ashamed that this wasn't the very first thing I blogged about because this is the very most important thing to me in my life!! On Christmas day, after years of anticipation, I asked my high school sweetheart, Jenna Christensen, to marry me! It all started back in 8th grade... Jenna and I were in the same science class and became friends there. It wasn't until our sophomore year though that we told one another that we liked each other, and since then we've pretty much always been together and I have just anxiously awaited the day when I would finally get the chance to ask her to marry me.
Jenna is amazing! She is the sweetest, nicest, most sincere and loving person you'll ever meet. I am so grateful and feel so lucky that I get to spend the rest of my life with her. She has such a special ability to love people and help them feel loved. She is always considerate of others' feelings and makes a conscious effort to ensure that nobody is feeling left out. She has an incredible gift with people with special needs to be able to love them and understand them. It really is an inspiring sight to see her when she interacts with her friends with special needs. She just has this way of looking right past their disability and straight into their heart and is able to communicate with them in a way that most of us can't. She lives her life in such a christ-like manner; her testimony is expressed so strongly through her actions and just the way she has chosen to live her life. She understands her divine worth as a daughter of God and is able to see everyone in that same light and treats them as such. She never judges or speaks bad of others either. I love her so much for who she is and for the example she is to me. She is going to continue to do so many amazing things in this life and be a blessing to so many people.
I will share a story about something that just explains the kind of person Jenna is and why I loved her so much, even when I was 15. From 9th-11th grade, I suffered from some sever acne. It took me a few cycles of Accutane to finally overcome the problem, but I had to deal with it for a couple years first. This was a pretty tough time for me in terms of self-confidence and self-esteem. I knew I had bad acne and I knew that other people noticed it, and sometimes I got made fun of at school because of it. When my acne was at its worst was when Jenna started liking me. I was really confused...I always thought to myself "Why would she like me? My face is so gross to look at..." But I noticed something with Jenna that was different than everyone else. One thing I couldn't do while I had acne was look people in the eye when I would talk to them. I would see their eyes looking at my acne instead of back into my eyes and it just reminded me of how bad my acne was that people couldn't help but stare at when they would talk to me. So I would usually not look at people directly when I would talk to them just so I could avoid all that. Well, I noticed that with Jenna that when she would talk to me she would look ONLY into my eyes and never at my acne. Not once! And that's when I knew that she liked me for who I was and not for how I looked (obviously). Luckily my acne is gone now, but I learned so much about the kind of person Jenna was and the kind of heart she has from this experience. She looks past the outer layer in people and sees them all as children of God and treats them like it. I've never heard her say one negative thing about another person or ever use degrading language. She really understands her purpose here on the earth and finds the beauty in everything. She is so humble and full of gratitude for what she has and never complains about the trials she is faced with. She has blessed my life so much and has taught me so much about how to love other people.